Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media report them inadequately. We blog here because our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, New York, Madrid, London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening and why. This ongoing war is killing us.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

27-Jul-14: Strewth - plain Australian talk about Hamas terror

Given our background, things Australian tend to get our attention, particularly when they have a connection to terror.

The Australian government has formally listed Hamas as a terrorist organisation... Until last week it was only the military wing of Hamas, Izz alDin al Qassam Brigades, that Australia designated as a terrorist organisation... Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who announced the listing of Hamas as a terrorist organisation has criticised the group for not accepting last week's ceasefire, and has praised Israel for its leadership. "The Australian Government has listed Hamas as a terrorist organisation pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1373, which deals with the prevention and suppression of terrorist acts," Bishop said in a statement. "Hamas claims to represent Gaza, yet it has jeopardised the welfare of its own people by rejecting the proposal for a ceasefire," she added. "The Israeli Government demonstrated leadership by accepting the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire proposal.," the Australian foreign minister added, referring to the ceasefire proposed last week which was accepted by Israel, but rejected by Hamas - although Hamas claimed it had not been notified of the proposed truce. [Source: Big News Network]

Australian Moslems have been getting a very different view of Hamas. Australia's Grand Mufti, Ibrahim Abu Mohammed Salem [his Facebook page is here], visiting our neighbourhood a year and a half ago, paid a deeply devotional visit to the top-level terrorist leadership of Hamas in Gaza. According to this report from the Sydney Daily Telegraph, December 31, 2012, the religious functionary -

led an Australian delegation of Muslim scholars to the Gaza Strip, where they met Hamas senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh... Dr Mohamed, who has been styled as a moderate since taking the top Australian Muslim post, last week expressed his happiness at being in Gaza, describing it as the land of pride and martyrdom. "I am pleased to stand on the land of jihad to learn from its sons and I have the honour to be among the people of Gaza where the weakness always becomes strength, the few becomes many and the humiliation turns into pride," he told local news agencies. "We came here in order to learn from Gaza. As I said in my speech, we will make the stones, trees, and people of Gaza talk, in order to learn steadfastness, sacrifice, and the defence of one's rights from them. We feel like we are on cloud nine. We feel like we are on top of the world."

Strewth! Given what we know now about arsenals deliberately embedded inside mosques, schools and hospitals, it would be interesting to know what sort of world Salem felt he was on top of in the time he spent in Gaza. And only slightly less interesting to know why he and his acolytes seem to prefer living in Sydney and Melbourne to the paradise they encountered in Hamastan.

Peter Wertheim, speaking as executive director of the organization that represents Australia's Jewish community, delivered a sound response at the time that we think is even more worthwhile hearing now:

There is nothing he can learn from Gaza and its Hamas rulers that can possibly have any legitimate application in Australia. His visit and his comments undermine Australia’s efforts to build a peaceful, inclusive and democratic multicultural society [source]

2 comments:

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I fear for Australia and other non muslim countries. Jihad could easily happen here, it only takes a small number to stir the pot and get it started. It only took 19 to attack the Twin Towers. France and England are having big problems as they have many more Muslims in their country. It seems the more you have the more trouble that gets stirred up. I hope we are ready Army-Police wise for tantrums that include throwing dangerous items and I do think that their placards of 'Behead anyone who insults Islam' should be taken off them and they should be fined for inciting violence. You have to be 3 steps ahead of stirring Muslims because they act out they don't stop to think. They are the only culture to not really intergrate into non Muslim countries. If they put up a Mosque they then claim the sububrb as Islams.

sadly there is no supporting evidence of the government doing this , it is only reported on BNN and the Australian govt site that lists terrorist groups does not list hamas http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/Listedterroristorganisations/Pages/default.aspx

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